It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

A month later the General Court served notice to the town of Newbury that the bridge was to be built.

Completed and opened for traffic in 1852, the bridge was designed and built by Lemuel Chenoweth and his brother, Eli, of Beverly.

Many of the burhs were twin towns that straddled a river and connected by a fortified bridge, like those built by Charles the Bald a generation before.

It crosses Florence, where it passes below the Ponte Vecchio and the Santa Trìnita bridge ( built by Bartolomeo Ammanati, but inspired by Michelangelo ).

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle.

List of Roman bridges | Roman bridge of Córdoba, Spain, built in the 1st century BC.

Although large Chinese bridges of wooden construction existed at the time of the Warring States, the oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, built from 595 to 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty.

In 1927 welding pioneer Stefan Bryła designed the first welded road bridge in the world, which was later built across the river Słudwia Maurzyce near Łowicz, Poland in 1929.

Modern bridge are currently built in concrete, steel, fiber reinforced polymers ( FRP ), stainless steel or combinations of those materials.

Often in palaces a bridge will be built over an artificial waterway as symbolic of a passage to an important place or state of mind.

The bridge will be built near the northern end of the Bosphorus, between the villages of Garipçe on the European side and Poyrazköy on the Asian side.

A bridge was built over the river Nabalia, where the warring parties approached each other on both sides to negotiate peace.

* Wettsteinbrücke ( current structure built 1998, original bridge built 1879 )

* Mittlere Brücke ( current structure built 1905, original bridge built 1225 as the first bridge to cross the Rhine River )

* Dreirosenbrücke ( built 2004, original bridge built 1935 )

They took a detour and built a new bridge over the river, just outside of Tavistock.

Finberg pointed out, however, that a document of 1651 refers to Tavistock's guildhall as Guilehall, so Guilebridge is more likely to be guild bridge, probably because it was built or maintained by one of the town guilds.

In 39, Caligula performed a spectacular stunt by ordering a temporary floating bridge to be built using ships as pontoons, stretching for over two miles from the resort of Baiae to the neighboring port of Puteoli.

The original bridge was built with private capital and then purchased by the state for $ 2. 5 million in 1951.

The bridge itself rises up from the river, light-flared and enormous, like the outdoor set for an epic opera.

As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.

Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.

The `` Essex Journal '' says that he `` delivered an oration on the bridge, which for elegance of style, propriety of speech or force of argument, was truly Ciceronian ''.

The bridge has survived the natural hazards of the elements, war, fire, and floods, as well as injuries incident to heavy traffic, for more than a hundred years.

The Chenoweth brothers were experienced bridge builders, and against the competition of other, and better known, bridge designers and builders they had constructed nine of the covered, wooden bridges on the Parkersburg and Staunton Turnpike a dozen years before, as well as many other bridges for several counties.

Never rebuilt, the bridge was strengtened in 1938 by two extra piers, a concrete floor, and a walk-way along the upper side in order to care for modern traffic.

Again Reverend Corder saved the bridge when Union soldiers planned to destroy it, after filling its two lanes with hay and straw -- but for what reason is not recorded nor remembered, certainly not because of pressure from an opposing Confederate force.

The girders of a shattered Dog River bridge lay strewn for half a mile downstream.

Doubts thus inculcated left me floundering for a while and, like some higher critical friends, trying to continue to use the Bible as the Word of God while at the same time holding it to have been subjected to a vast number of redactions and interpolations: attempting to bridge the chasm between an older, reverent, Bible-loving generation and a critical, doubting, Bible-emancipated race.

Apple had considered the problem, and AppleTalk included the possibility for a low-cost LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge, but they felt it would be a low-volume product and left it to 3rd parties.

Towards the end of Steiner's life, a group of theology students ( primarily Lutheran, with some Roman Catholic members ) approached Steiner for help in reviving Christianity, in particular " to bridge the widening gulf between modern science and the world of spirit.

A transmission used the words " bridge " and " wedding ", supposedly a terrorist's code words for assassination.

In 1995, the American Welding Society presented the Historic Welded Structure Award for the bridge to Poland.

A bridge can be categorized by what it is designed to carry, such as trains, pedestrian or road traffic, a pipeline or waterway for water transport or barge traffic.

A more refined measure for this exercise is to weigh the completed bridge rather than measure against a fixed quantity of materials provided and determine the multiple of this weight that the bridge can carry, a test that emphasizes economy of materials and efficient glue joints ( see balsa wood bridge ).

A bridge's economic efficiency will be site and traffic dependent, the ratio of savings by having a bridge ( instead of, for example, a ferry, or a longer road route ) compared to its cost.

The central bridge was reserved exclusively for the use of the Emperor, Empress, and their attendants.

The bridge was also prepared for transporting fresh water from the mainland to Öland.

Optimus then uses Shockwave's hand canon to blast the space bridge control pillar, temporarily halting Cybertron from transporting into Earth's atmosphere.

In addition, a bridge would provide a route across the Baltimore Harbor for vehicles transporting hazardous materials ( these materials are prohibited from both the Baltimore Harbor and Fort McHenry tunnels ).

The Lake Washington ferries in King County, Washington provided the only efficient means for transporting goods and passengers across the lake prior to the opening of the first floating bridge in 1940.

The construction had to face the great difficulty of transporting the girders from Djibouti, but once the material had arrived, the structure had been finished in ten days ; however Emperor Menelik had used for other purposes the cement imported from Europe to build the bridge with.

Earlier bridge building techniques involved fabricating the main cables at a factory, transporting them to the bridge site, and then stretching the heavy cables over the gap to erect them over the bridge.

This method will involve large barges transporting a pre-assembled span section, positioning it under the bridge, and lifting it into position using strand jacks.